Michael Fassbender’s Fake Noggin Tops the Best TV This Week

If you’ve got an early bedtime, you may have missed most of this week’s recap. That’s OK. Catching you up is what we’re here for. To sum up: Hillary Clinton out Colbert’d Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart brought the 1990s back, and Lizzy Caplan told late night’s kinda-pervy cousin Conan O’Brien a very unsexy story about sex. And in earlier time slots we got human dancing machines and T.I. on The View. Yeah. There’s a lot of conversation going on in this edition of the round up, so we’ll cut to the chase. Take a summer Friday and start your weekend early with these.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — Wu-Tang Clan

Proving that after 20 years the Wu-Tang Clan still ain’t nothing to f*-k with, the group is reuniting to release a new album called A Better Tomorrow, and the whole damn clique showed up on the on The Daily Show to promote it. Wu-Tang forever!

Oh, that Hillz. The more we see you on Comedy Central the more we want to lobby for our Texting With Hillarypitch. If Mrs. Clinton (if you’re nasty) does decide to run in 2016, she’s already kicked off one helluva a goodwill tour, and thanks to Stephen Colbert she’s also getting her feet held to the fire on this country’s toughest challenges. Watch this clip if you want to find out which foe she would rather take on in a fight: One horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses. The answer may surprise you.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Native Advertising

“Everyone loves sponsored content because it is the best and so fucking cool, sources everywhere say.” That’s from an article published by The Onion on May 17 of last year called “Sponsored Content Pretty Fucking Awesome.” And as you’ll see in this clip from Last Week Tonight, Time Inc. CEO Joseph A. Ripp feels pretty much the same way! “Quite frankly, I’ve changed church and state, as you know. We took that away,” Ripp told Bloomberg TV. “We said the editors are going to be working for the business side of the equation. And quite frankly, I think they’re happier. They’re more excited about it, because no longer are we asking ourselves the question, ‘Are we violating church and state?’ Whatever that was.” Yeah, that stupid question. When life becomes an Onion article, it’s sad times ahead. Take it away, John!

Conan — Lizzy Caplan Relives Her First Masters Of Sex Love Scene

From Mean Girls to True Blood to Party Down and now Masters of Sex, Lizzy Caplan has been a secret Hollywood weapon for years. She’s not flashy. Not a publicity hound. She just shows up, does the work, and consistently delivers. So it’s really too bad that Michael Sheen had such a … poor reaction after shooting their first love scene for Showtime’s Masters of Sex. Yeah. It’s a whole story.

The View — T.I.

In 2014, going on a female-oriented daytime talk program to promote your next hip-hop album is totally not weird, which is what makes it parallel-universe levels of strange in the context of rap’s historic timeline. But, you know, in a age when Snoop Dogg does Overstock.com commercials and Andre 3000 pitches for Gillette, we are fully living in a new world order. We’ll take it over a coast versus coast blood feud any day. Now pass those Cheerios, Nelly!

The Colbert Report — Michael Fassbender: ‘I Love You All’

In the upcoming movie Frank, Michael Fassbender plays the front man of a band. This would be totally normal, except for the fact that Frank is really eccentric and wears a massive papier mache head that he never takes off. Like, ever. And in a wonderful trick of life imitating art, Frank and his band—aka his cast mates from the movie including Maggie Gyllenhaal on the keyboard—went on the Report to promote their film by performing in character. So watch Fassbender get his rock star on by dancing about the soundstage in a big fake head while Gyllenhaal does some great shoulder work as she tickles the ivories. We love you, too, Frank!

So You Think You Can Dance — Jessica and All-Star tWitch are Dancing Like Nappytabs Told Them To